old canon QL

[paul cacciapaglia]

We recently purchased an older home and are going to renovate to sale or lease. I found some old camera equipment and am clueless to its worth. There was an old canon QL, an old kodak, and an old polaroid. Please help me decifer if it is worth anything. I have not yet cleaned it, just snapped some quick pics to post. Please Help!:)

[paul cacciapaglia]

here are the kodak camera pics

[paul cacciapaglia]

and the polaroid

[Dante King]

afraid that the canon QL25 is not rare or in demand. worth about $50 if you can get it. Kodak is not rare at all, looks like the brownie. think there is one on just about every garage or attic in the midwest and eastern states. Polaroid, well... sorry not worth much.

[RossW]

Just FYI, it would be better to refer to the Canon rangefinder camera you found as a "Canonet" rather than just a "QL." In that era, QL was short for "Quick Load," referring to the ease of putting film onto the takeup spindle. Other Canon cameras had the QL logo on them, although I don't know how many actually had that as part of their model number.

[FlashZebra]

If functioning correctly, the Canonet is a very nice camera.

Some Canonet's (all ?? ) had a very neat flash system (for the time). You just put about any manual flash on the camera, and dialed the guide number of the flash on a scale on the lens (check yours out).

Then as you focused, the camera mechanically stopped the lens doen to an F# that would give correct exposure for your focused distance.

This gave very accurate exposures on whatever you happen to focus on.

It has a classic rangefinder type focus.

Olympus and Minolta made very similar cameras that were also very nice small cameras.

Enjoy! Lon

[paul cacciapaglia]

thanks for all the input.